Tanglewood
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Tanglewood was named for American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor, rented a small cottage in March 1850 from a railroad tycoon in the Berkshires (Lenox, Massachusetts), a sort of inland Newport, Rhode Island for Americas wealthy of the Gilded Age. While at the cottage Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales (1853), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls. In memory of the book, the owner renamed the cottage "Tanglewood", and later, a nearby estate appropriated the famous name and began hosting concerts.
In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical, jazz, and popular music, it also provides musical training in the form of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students and the Tanglewood Music Center for pre-professional musicians.
See also
External links
- [BSO's official Tanglewood website]
- [Tanglewood Music Festival: provides information for those planning on attending the summer festival].
- [Art of the States: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra]
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